Results for install and remove tests for FC-Devel

[Phil Knirsch]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> Yeah, i forgot to mention, this whole test is mainly for completeness. 
>> Quite a few packages have coreutils as a requirement in Fedora Core, and 
>> for packages that have a real PreReq this actually makes sense and is 
>> certainly needed as rpm otherwise could always just put coreutils at 
>> some later point in the install order and suddenly tons of pre or post 
>> install scripts would break. And thats basically what this test 
>> revealed, that there are actually quite a few packages that can break if 
>> coreutils isn't installed prior to them, so this is really a missing 
>> PreReq dependency.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation... Indeed it isn't a live system but a 
> filesystem being populated at the same time scripts are run, so having
> coreutils required is indeed important. Maybe, when the filesystem is 
> depopulated coreutils cannot be removed anyway but who knows, it is indeed
> still a good thing to have everything right.
> 
> I don't know if it is easy/possible/interesting, but if it is, could it be 
> possible to do similar things for extras without too much work? Or maybe 
> it is too early as extras are not handled by anaconda anyway?
> 

Yes, of course, the test can be run on FC-Extras as well without much 
work as everything except the reporting is automated. I wanted to rerun 
the test anyway sometime soon on a different (and much faster) machine.

The test just takes very long to run. The one i did now took about 70 
hours altogether on a "standard" desktop machine. But if you think about 
  it, this was for over 2200 packages. This test therefore basically did 
2200 complete installs and remvoals which boils down to about 2 minutes 
per package for the whole install/remove operation, and that's really fast.

Read ya, Phil

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